Kickxia Dumort

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 238

16. Kickxia Dumort .1

( Elatinoides (Chav.) Wettst .)

Annual or perennial herbs; stems usually procumbent or climb­ ing. Leaves alternate (the lowest sometimes opposite), ovate, hastate or sagittate. Flowers solitary in the leaf-axils (rarely aggregated into spike-like racemes on lateral branches). Calyx with 5 subequal lobes. Corolla and stamens as in Linaria . Capsule more or less globose, with 2 equal loculi, each opening by a single large pore with detachable lid. Seeds alveolate or tuberculate.1234

1 All leaves rounded or cordate at the base, without lobes or auricles

2 Calyx-lobes4 -5-8 x 2 -4 mm in fruit,± ovate-cordate;corolla 10-15 mm 4. spuria 2 Calyx-lobes c. 3 x 1 mm in fruit, linear-lanceolate; corolla 8-11 mm 5. lanigera 1 Atleastsomeleaveshastate orsagittate

3 Corolla 4-6 mm; capsule 1 -5-2 mm 1. cirrhosa 3 Corolla7-15mm; capsuleat least 2- 5mm

4 Seeds tuberculate; wall of capsule rather thick and rigid; spur strongly curved 2. commutata 4 Seeds alveolate; wall of capsule thin, not rigid; spur

± straight 3. elatine